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      Wire-Rigged Vessels. - Capt. Robert Gaskin, an old pioneer of the lakes, and general agent for the late improved fit-out for vessels known as the wire standing gear, has been in this city for several days past preparing to fit out for a number of vessels now in process of …

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      ASHORE. - The schooner City of Toronto, Capt. George Goulding, went ashore on the piers on Thursday night about eleven o'clock, and now lays high on the rocks. She left Toronto Thursday morning, and encountered a heavy gale before getting half-way across the lake. She rode gallantly ...

      After a mild early winter, a heavy freeze in mid-Decemeber trapped late-running vessels all over the lakes. The vessels on this list - more than 75 of them - had to lay up in the Welland Canal area for the winter. Most were bound to other ports at the time.

      *1851 The year dividers for the vessels shown as lost in 1865 are missing. The CLEVELAND wreck occurred in 1866, EMPIRE and WISCONSIN in 1867, CITY OF BOSTON in '68, PRAIRIE STATE, '69. N-T was purchased by Vermont Central RR in 1870. Other major wrecks, such as the burning of …

      Photographic views of the Canal street bridge at Chicago, showing the daily blockade of vessels there, will be taken for a week, and will be sent to the Secretary of War, with the engineer's report of the bridge as an obstruction.

      MARINE NOTES . . . The schooner Arthur is just now engaged on one of the shortest routes ever assigned to a lake vessel - the carrying of 500,000 bu of grain from Wabash elevator No. 4, Toledo, to the elevators of the National Milling Co., Toledo, a distance of …

      FROM THE PROPELLER JERSEY CITY. - We learn that the life-boat of the ill-fated propeller Jersey City wrecked on the Canada shore, has been found. It came ashore on this side of the lake, a short distance from this port, in a sound condition. Large quantities of the cargo are …

      TALES OF TERRIBLE SUFFERING RECALLED _____ GOVERNMENT TURNS DOWN BILLS FOR MEDICAL ATTENDANCE _____ EXPERIENCE OF SQUAW ISLAND KEEPERS ON OVERTURNED BOAT _____ Washington, November 14. - Mr. Tracewell, comptroller of the treasury, has rendered a ...

      The boat was abandoned as a total loss the next day, but was recovered by Coast Wrecking Company early in July. She was lost for good on Lake Michigan in August, 1885

      NO TRUCKING _______ Kingston, May 29. - Capt. Crawford, commander of the ferry Fawcett, owned by the city council of Wolfe Island, is now engaged in a life and death struggle for the dignity of his profession. Capt. Crawford allowed that it is beneath his station as a ...

      OLD CAPT. McELROY RELATES SENSATIONS FELT IN 60-MILE GALE _______ Adrift on a scow in the sixty-mile gale on Lake Erie, Capt. George McElroy, of Port Huron, escaped with his life and is not much worse for the experience. And the scow was No. 13 of the fleet of a …

      MARINE INTELLIGENCE . . . THE GALE - Our protracted period of pleasant weather was terminated on Wednesday evening by the wind suddenly changing to the north-east, bringing rain with it and increasing during the night to the most severe gale of the season. The sea ran ...

      Admiralty Notice _______ ONE ANCHOR AND CHAIN - District Court of the United States for the district of Michigan as: In Admiralty. Whereas, a libel has been filed in said Court on October 16, 1858, against an anchor and about ten fathoms of chain attached thereto, now lying ...

      A RELIC OF EARLY STRUGGLES A diver who is working on the Soo river bottom in removing boulders from the steamboat channel, discovered a cannon which is believed to have been one of three guns that were thrown from a scow, to prevent their capture by our friends, the Yankees, …

      A VETERAN CRAFT GONE - During a freshet which occurred at Fairport , Ohio, a few days since, the schooner CITIZEN , which laid up at that port, broke from her moorings, and before she could be recovered ...

      As far as I can tell, the HURLBURT was an 82 t. schooner built at Sandusky in 1856.

      This is the steamer ARGO, DDD's hull number 120 and their last wooden vessel. She was renamed GLEN in 1930 and was stripped and abandoned in 1938.

      MARINE ------------ Port of Detroit, Dec 10 ------------- VESSEL SALES. - The more important transfers of floating stock may be summed up as follows, those of lesser grades having been passed over: Scow American Champion, C. H. ...

      THE BRIGHTIE IN PORT. - The wrecking schooner [sic] Leviathan has arrived here with the schooner Brightie , recently ashore on Washington Island . The

    THE BRIGHTIE IN PORT. - The wrecking schooner [sic] Leviathan has arrived here with the schooner Brightie , recently ashore on Washington Island . The

Maritime History of the Great Lakes